Definition of sickness

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Sickness (n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

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Disqualification :: Disqualification (n.) That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor..
Emaciate :: Emaciate (v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him..
Sickening :: Sickening (a.) Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating..
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) The sweating sickness.
Clinic :: Clinic (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
Surfeit :: Surfeit (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess..
Bloody Sweat :: Bloody sweat () A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries..
Disorder :: Disorder (v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach..
Recoverable :: Recoverable (a.) Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable..
Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Seasickness :: Seasickness (n.) The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel..
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Low :: Low (superl.) Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness..
Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..
Epilepsy :: Epilepsy (n.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles..
Suffer :: Suffer (v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..
Analepsy :: Analepsy () Recovery of strength after sickness.
Disease :: Disease (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc..
Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness..
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